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Bready and Nanosys join forces to launch world’s first barrier-free laminated quantum dot film components

Monday 09 May 2022
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Nanosys, Inc. (Silicon Valley, California) and Nanjing Bready Advanced Materials Technology Co., Ltd., recently announced mass production of the world’s first line of completely air-stable, barrier-free, laminated quantum dot film components xQDEF. These laminates deliver no-compromise quantum dot colour and brightness for displays in a new, lower-cost package, expanding the market for quantum dot displays. Tier-one consumer electronics brands including Hisense, TCL and Vizio are expected to launch display products based on the new components in the second half of 2022.

TactoTek licensee Nanogate is ready for IMSE manufacturing

Friday 06 May 2022
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TactoTek (Oulu, Finland), a global leader in developing and industrialising in-mould structural electronics (IMSE) technology, announces that its licensee, Nanogate (Fohnsdorf, Austria), a leading global specialist for design-oriented high-tech surfaces and components, is ready to mass produce IMSE parts. Nanogate recently completed the IMSE Builder technology transfer and has verified IMSE manufacturing capabilities.

ZSW ramps up research plants for perovskite tandem solar cells

Tuesday 03 May 2022
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The future certainly looks sunny for solar cells equipped with two electricity-generating semiconductors. With good reason – their potential efficiency is far higher than that of conventional single solar cells. They can also be lighter and more flexible, depending on their component materials. The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) now aims to fast-track this promising tandem solar technology’s time to market. To this end, its researchers have put two new high-performance coating plants into operation. These systems produce tandem solar cells consisting of a perovskite solar cell that can be combined with other types of solar cells. The various layers are deposited under ultra-clean conditions. Companies in the solar sector can take advantage of these capabilities to optimise their developments in the area of tandem solar cells.

DuraTech Industries licenses TaktoTek technology

Friday 29 April 2022
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TactoTek (Oulu, Finland), the developer of injection moulded structural electronics (IMSE), and DuraTech Industries (Lacrosse, Wisconsin), have announced a licensing agreement. DuraTech is a TactoTek Design and Innovate licensee with rights to sell, design, and produce parts that use TactoTek’s intellectual property which includes 44 patent families with over 130 granted patents, as well as extensive trade secrets and know-how for designing and producing IMSE parts. DuraTech will create and deliver IMSE solutions for its customers in North America and around the world from production facilities in the USA.

ASCA and Epishine sign their first licensing agreement for printed OPV

Thursday 28 April 2022
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Epishine (Linköping, Sweden), a key player in the development and production of printed organic solar cells and current global leader on indoor OPV is partnering with ASCA – an ARMOR Group company and the organic photovoltaics (OPV) global leader, to strengthen and further develop the world-wide OPV market. ASCA recently acquired the most relevant intellectual property (IP) portfolio on printed OPV and the companies have signed a licensing agreement to share it beginning of April. The contract will enable the Swedish-based manufacturer Epishine to further improve its organic indoor light energy harvesting solar modules.